gc

4 definitions found

gc - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Gc
      n 1: 1,000,000,000 periods per second [syn: gigahertz, GHz,
           gigacycle per second, gigacycle, Gc]

gc - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  GC
  
     1. garbage collection.
  
     2. A storage allocator with garbage collection by
     Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers.  Gc is a plug-in replacement
     for C's malloc.  Since the collector does not require
     pointers to be tagged, it does not attempt to ensure that
     all inaccessible storage is reclaimed.
  
     Version 3.4 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax/BSD,
     Ultrix, Intel 80386/Unix, SGI, Alpha/OSF/1,
     Sequent (single threaded), Encore (single threaded),
     RS/600, HP-UX, Sony News, A/UX, Amiga, NeXT.
  
     (ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/gc3.4.tar.Z).
  
     (2000-04-19)
  

gc - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  GC
   /G.C/
  
     [from LISP terminology; Garbage Collect]
  
     1. vt. To clean up and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC
  the
     top of my desk today."
  
     2. vt. To recycle, reclaim, or put to another use.
  
     3. n. An instantiation of the garbage collector process.
  
     Garbage collection is computer-science techspeak for a particular
     class of strategies for dynamically but transparently reallocating
     computer memory (i.e., without requiring explicit allocation and
     deallocation by higher-level software). One such strategy involves
     periodically scanning all the data in memory and determining what is
     no longer accessible; useless data items are then discarded so that
     the memory they occupy can be recycled and used for another purpose.
     Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage collection.
  
     In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but the abbrev GC is
     more frequently used because it is shorter. Note that there is an
     ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context: "I'm going to
     garbage-collect my desk" usually means to clean out the drawers, but
     it could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself.
  

gc - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  GC
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